November Media and Research Roundup

Image is of a fat woman's hands on top of a closed laptop; Image by Lindley Ashline at Body Liberation Stock

by Bill and Terri Weitze

September 1, 2020: Researchers looking at the effect of meal frequency on body weight finds that there is little robust evidence that reducing meal frequency is beneficial, or that it has any effect on body weight.
https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmaa056

September 10, 2020: A study finds that people who are most likely to binge eat due to the pandemic are young adults who have experienced weight stigma, regardless of gender or body weight.
https://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/coronavirus-1008/who-s-most-likely-to-binge-eat-amid-pandemic-761078.html
https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaaa077

September 23, 2020: A large study on the risk of hospitalization, ventilation, or death among US veteran patients with COVID-19 finds that neither high body mass index (BMI), Black race, Hispanic ethnicity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, nor smoking were associated with mortality. A related April 17, 2020 article from Wired explains how the idea that high BMI was a risk factor for COVID-19 patients may have come about.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22310
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-does-not-discriminate-by-body-weight

September 25, 2020: Ragen Chastain explains why the premise of an article called The Habits of Successful Weight Losers is simply bad science.
https://themighty.com/2020/09/diet-culture-bad-science

September 30, 2020: Nylon talks about how some fat bodies have come to be seen as acceptable and others not acceptable and why it is important for all body types to be embraced.
https://www.nylon.com/beauty/dismantling-the-acceptable-plus-body-and-anti-fatness-within-the-fat-community

October 2020: QuackWatch.org, a network of websites maintained by the Center for Inquiry focusing on health frauds, myths, fads, and misconduct, has posted as part of its reports on diet scams the book Health Risks of Weight Loss with the permission of the author Frances M. Berg.
https://quackwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/quackwatch/dietscam/reports/health_risks_of_weight_loss.pdf

October 2020: The most recent issue of Fat Studies (Volume 9, Issue 3) is now available, with a focus on the future fat people, fat bodies and society.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ufts20/9/3?nav=tocList

October 2020: A French-Canadian website Grossophobie.ca is posting a list of books (in French and English) concerning fat phobia and living in a fat body.
https://grossophobie.ca/livres

October 8, 2020: Emily Thomas, on The Food Chain podcast, interviews fat activists Esther D. Rothblum, Sonya Renee Taylor, Sabrina Strings, and Sigrun Daielsdottir about living in a fat phobic society.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszjqh

October 16, 2020: ASDAH's (Association for Size Diversity and Health) new website is here!
https://asdah.org

[Pic is of Terri and Bill Weitze, a Caucasian couple, both wearing glasses]

Terri and Bill Weitze have been active within NAAFA for years, and they currently coauthor the Media and Research Roundup in the NAAFA Newsletter. They both live and work in San Jose, CA, and met through a fat-positive bulletin board system before the days of the World Wide Web.